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• High-level waste returned to Japan

  The first consignment of solid high-level waste belonging to Sellafield's Japanese customers has safely arrived in Japan from the UK following a journey by ship of over six weeks. The waste arose from the reprocessing of those customers' used nuclear fuel at Sellafield. Posted Mar 10 2010, 11:10 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: UK, Sellafield, Japan, nuclear, High-level radioactive waste, shipment

• Monju moves closer to restart

  The Monju prototype fast reactor (FBR) in Japan has completed a government-mandated procedure to ensure the reactor is safe to restart following a sodium coolant leak which forced it out of action almost 15 years ago. It could restart as early as next month. Posted Feb 23 2010, 10:31 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, restart, FBR, government, leak, fast breeder reactor, monju, prototype

• High-level waste sets sail for Japan

  The first consignment of solid highly active waste belonging to Sellafield's Japanese customers has started its journey back to Japan from the UK. The waste arose from the reprocessing of those customers' used nuclear fuel at Sellafield. Posted Jan 22 2010, 04:55 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: UK, Sellafield, Japan, fuel, waste, reprocessing, Used Fuel Recycling, ship

• Plant opened for nuclear turbine blades

  Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has today begun operations at its new plant specifically for the production of forged turbine blades for nuclear power plants. Posted Jan 20 2010, 12:04 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: MHI, Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, nuclear, turbine, forged, blades

• Second quake-hit unit back in operation

  A second reactor has resumed commercial operation at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant. All seven units at the plant were shut down following a powerful earthquake in July 2007. Posted Jan 19 2010, 11:12 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, earthquake, reactor, nuclear, plant, online, second, seismic

• Full power for Japan's first MOX burner

  Japan's first ever nuclear power reactor to use mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies is now operating at full capacity, fuel supplier Areva has announced. Kyushu's Genkai 3 was loaded with the fuel fabricated from uranium and the plutonium recovered from previously used nuclear fuel in October. It was restarted in early November, gradually increasing output until normal operation was achieved on 2 December. Recycling of plutonium in MOX is to play a key role in Japan's future nuclear fuel cycle, and two other utilities - Shikoku Electric Power Co and Chubu Electric Power Co – plan to introduce MOX fuel into their reactors in or after 2010. Areva's executive vice president of recycling, Jean-Pierre Gros, said the company was "proud to contribute to provide electricity to Japanese citizens for the first time through recyclable fuel MOX which demonstrates its safe, reliable and sustainable energy." Posted Dec 03 2009, 09:18 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Fuel Reprocessing, Japan, MOX, genkai, kyushu, Kyushu Electric Power Company

• Japan starts using MOX fuel

  Unit 3 of the Genkai nuclear power plant was scheduled to be restarted today having been partly loaded with mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies. The move marks the first ever use of the fuel in Japan. Posted Nov 05 2009, 10:20 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Nuclear Energy, Japan, nuclear power, genkai, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Recycling, MELOX, MOX Fuel, Sustainable Development, Kyushu Electric Power Company, Used Fuel Recycling

• Toshiba opens new engineering facility

  Toshiba has begun operations at its new engineering facilities at its main nuclear power engineering centre in Yokohama, Japan. The company expects the facilities to play a key role in the global expansion of its nuclear business. Posted Nov 02 2009, 11:42 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, Toshiba, engineering, expansion, nuclear, yokohama, facility

• Preparations for Japan's first use of MOX

  The loading of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel into the third reactor of the Genkai nuclear power plant in Japan is set to begin on 3 October, ahead of the first ever use of the fuel in the country. Posted Oct 01 2009, 11:37 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, MOX, reactor, genkai, mixed oxide fuel

• Earthquake in Japan

  Reactors shut down safely at Japan's Hamaoka nuclear power plant this morning as the Shizuoka region was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Posted Aug 11 2009, 10:07 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, earthquake, nuclear, shutdown, plant

• Reactor vessel heads on the move

  A new reactor pressure vessel head was shipped from Kobe, Japan bound for Texas today. Meanwhile another is inching its way across California. Posted Jun 24 2009, 11:03 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Texas, Japan, reactor vessel

• Japanese MOX target moves back 5 years

  Japanese plans for 16-18 reactors to be using mixed oxide (MOX) fuel by 2010 have been put back by five years, the country's Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPCO) has announced. Posted Jun 12 2009, 12:13 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, MOX, fuel

• Earthquake-hit unit gets OK for full output

  [Reuters, 1 June] Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has been given approval by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to raise output at unit 7 of its Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant to 100% as part of a test run. The 1315 MWe Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) was restarted on 9 May after almost 22 months of checks and repairs following the 6.8 magnitude Niigata Chuetsu offshore earthquake of 16 July 2007. Tepco had gradually increased power output at the reactor, reaching 75% on 31 May. Unit 7 is the first of the plant's seven reactors to be restarted - the others are still undergoing checks and repairs. Posted Jun 02 2009, 09:41 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, earthquake, MET

• Nuclear component orders bolster JSW results

  Japan Steel Works (JSW) reported records sales and profit in the year to 31 March, which it attributed to the steady growth of its nuclear department. The company produces large forgings for reactor pressure vessels, steam generators and turbine shafts. Posted Jun 01 2009, 11:12 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Japan, forecast, steel

• US, Japanese enrichment contracts for Russia

  Russia's Techsnabexport (Tenex) has signed its first long-term uranium enrichment services contracts with a group of American utilities, as well as one with a Japanese utility. Posted May 27 2009, 12:43 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Russia, Japan, fuel